So after getting some more time to spend on Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, I find a lot of similarities in some of the plot stuff.
Have any of you guys had a chance to play the game on WiiWare or in the PSP re-release? I think I might be the only person here that's even attempted to play through them.
Also, getting into the matter of side stories and the like for Final Fantasy games, I noticed that there seems to be quite a lot, even more than we know now, what with the direct sequels and all.
If I'm thinking correctly the games that have addition plot material for them, whether it be other games or different types of media in general, are IV, V, VII, X, XII, and now XIII.
IV has The After Years and now the Interlude chapter they added for the Complete Collection PSP remake (which wasn't anything more than a three hour tacked on distraction to the After Years story. It only added an extra appearance of the Mysterious Girl character from The After Years as well as letting you see the birth of Yang's daughter Ursula, as well as Ceodore, Cecil and Rosa's son.
V has the Legend of the Crystals anime OVA that was released many years ago. It was apparently not only released in Japanese but also English as well, although I've never seen it in English and it's funny because never came out here until Anthology was released back in 2000 I believe the year was.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4PH0YTG5 (Episode 1 - 251 MB)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EE5RDY00 (Episode 2 - 241 MB)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PLR1FVQ2 (Episode 3 - 246 MB)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=25KHZGWL (Episode 4 - 228 MB)
Those are some download links to all of the episodes in case you're interested. The password for the .rar files is luelinks.
VII had all of the Compilation stuff. Dirge of Cerberus, Advent Children, Last Order, Before Crisis, Crisis Core...there might be even more that I'm missing, which is a scary thought. Even with all this extra plot stuff that almost all borders on fan fiction and people still want the game to be remade, which I guarantee fans are going to hate.
X has X-2. We don't talk about such things, although I've heard once the battle system is mastered fighting is actually fun, but from what I've read there isn't very much real fighting to be done, and any game that requires 100% completion for an ending I can just look up on YouTube is fine by me, I mean
we all know that technically her getting over him in the end and them not being together is the better ending anyway. They were separated at the end of X, and I guess they figured they shouldn't mess with a good thing by making that the ending for X-2 as well unless you know, you want to kill yourself by getting 100% completion in that nightmare.
XII is a little complicated because technically since the game is set in Ivalice, there's a lot of games than can get thrown into the FFXII universe, like Vagrant Story, and all of the Final Fantasy Tactics games, but I think for continuity's sake I'll just stick to Revenant Wings for the DS, which was an RTS game that they made more difficult for the US because we're "used to this type of genre"? I don't know. I haven't played it, I've heard it's okay.
XIII-2 looks like more of the same but you can tell that they're totally appealing to otaku fanboys because they're exploiting Serra's momo appeal. I mean, she looks so young. The fact that Snow looked much older than she did was something that I never really understood or thought was okay for the most part.
Anyways, your thoughts? I know I put down a lot of stuff to comment on, but bear with me. It was an idea I came up with while playing FFIV: TAY.